Source: www.guardian.co.tt
T&T Olympic Committee Junior Sportsman and Junior Sportswoman of the Year Christian Homer and Cherelle Thompson will be the favourites to win the corresponding titles at the First Citizens Sports Foundation’s Youth Awards Ceremony which will be held today at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port-of-Spain. Homer took part in the inaugural youth Olympics in Singapore where he won a gold medal to become the first athlete from T&T to win a medal at the Games.
Thompson set a new Girls 15-17 50m Freestyle record at the ASATT Open National Short Course Championships in October, and was a finalist at the CAC Games, a semifinalist at the Commonwealth Games in India and represented T&T at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Dubai.
In all, 34 young athletes have been nominated by their respective national sporting organisations. Middle distance runner Jehue Gordon was named “Youth of the Year” by the Foundation last year.